Happy New Year from the Debian Project 1998-01-01 #use wml::debian::news 1998 brings some changes for the Debian project. Ian Jackson is now Debian project leader. Bruce Perens will continue as president of Software in the Public Interest, Inc., and will work on such things as funding worthy free software projects, external communications for the Debian project, Open Hardware, and another SPI software project that might eventually be as big as Debian.